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Obama and the Afghan Election: What It Means, What It Doesn't

William Bradley | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Kandahar, Nato, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kabul, Northern Alliance, Hamid Karzai, Special Forces, Mazar-E-Sharif, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban, World News
William Bradley

The Obama administration should sigh with a sense of relief after the election in Afghanistan -- the Taliban failed in their threat to halt the election, and were unable to pull off any of the promised attacks.

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Afghanistan Restricts Media Ahead Of Election; Press Told Not To Report Attacks

The Associated Press | Fisnik Abrashi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Censorship, Kabul, Afghanistan Censorship, Nato, U.N., Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan Election, Taliban, Afghanistan, Karzai, Barack Obama, World News

KABUL -- Insurgents struck the Afghan capital two days before national elections, firing rockets or mortars at the presidential palace and unleashing ...

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NATO Convoy Attack Outside Kabul Kills 8

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Nato, Afghan Elections, Kabul, War Wire, Taliban, Nato Attack, Kabul Attack, World News

KABUL — Insurgents struck the Afghan capital two days before national elections, firing rockets or mortars at the presidential palace and unleas...

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HuffPost Review: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Daniele Mastrogiacomo, Christian Parenti, Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, Kabul, Fixer Documentary, Shia, Taliban, James Nachtwey, Pashtun, Afghanistan War, Kalashnikov, Kandahar, Mullah Dadullah, NATO Afghanistan, Nato, Taliban Beheading, Fixer, Ian Olds, Ajmal Naqshbandi, Rolodex, Northern Pakistan, Occupation Dreamland, Journalists, Foreign Correspondents, Journalists Afghanistan, World News
Katya Wachtel

This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.

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Afghanistan Dispatch: Inside Kabul

Gilles Dorronsoro | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nato, Foreign Affairs, Taliban Attacks, Afghanistan Taliban, Kabul, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Advocacy, Afghanistan War, World News
Gilles Dorronsoro

The attack earlier this week on Pul-i-Alam, only 50 kilometers from Kabul, exemplifies the next step in the Taliban's winning strategy in Afghanistan: destabilizing the cities in the country's Pashtun belt.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Chief, Calls For More UN, EU Assistance With Afghanistan

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: United Nations, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Nato, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Obama Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghan War, NATO Afghanistan, European Union, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Anders Fogh Rasmussen Nato, World News

BRUSSELS — NATO needs more international help from the United Nations and European Union to secure and rebuild Afghanistan, the alliance's new c...

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Indian Ocean Unity

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Indian Ocean, Shashi Tharoor, IOR-ARC, Nato, Mercosur, Asean, Indian Ocean Rim Countries' Association for Regional Cooperation, World News
Shashi Tharoor

What international association brings together 18 countries, straddling three continents thousands of miles apart, united solely by their sharing of a common body of water?

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European Alarm Over Obama

David Calleo | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Obama, Nato, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), World News
David Calleo

The authors of "An Open Letter to the Obama Administration from Central and Eastern Europe" are nervous about recent US efforts to repair relations with Putin's Russia.

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General McChrystal and His "Retail War"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan Heroin Trade, Afghanistan, Nato, Stanley McChrystal, Heroin-Addicts, Taliban, Heroin, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

If we're going to label the Taliban in the Helmand valley "terrorists," then we might as well label the government that works with them to collect taxes from poppy farmers insurgents.

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Helicopter Crash At NATO Base In Afghanistan Kills 16

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 08.19.2009 | World

Read More: Helicopter, Warwire, Nato, Afghanistan, NATO Base, Afghanistan Helicopter Crash, World News

KABUL — A Russian-owned civilian helicopter crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff at southern Afghanistan's largest NATO base Sund...

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Blood and Oil in Central Asia

Conn Hallinan | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Oil, Middle East, Central Asia, Energy, Nato, Central Asia Energy, North-Atlantic-Treaty-Organization, World News
Conn Hallinan

The struggle between an aggressively expanding NATO and the nascent Russia/China alliance will determine who holds the future high ground in the competition for the world's energy resources.

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US-Russia Thaw Worries Eastern European Countries

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, US Russia Relations, US-Russian Relations, Us Russia Nuclear Talks, US-Russia Relations, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Obama Medvedev, Obama Putin, Europe, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Nato, World News

WARSAW, Poland — A group of prominent former Eastern European leaders wrote to President Barack Obama on Thursday that their region is gripped b...

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McKiernan 'Embarrassed' By Removal From Top Post In Afghanistan

cnn.com | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Gen. David McKiernan, General David McKiernan, President Obama, War in Afghanistan, NATO Forces in Afghanistan, Obama, Mckiernan, Nato, Robert Gates, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, David McKiernan, World News

General David McKiernan was "dismayed, disappointed, and more than a little embarrassed" when he was ousted as the commander of NATO forces in Afghani...

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Afghanistan: Could Britain be Losing its Appetite for War?

Cedric Perrier | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Uk, Afghan Afghanistan, Dear Leader, The Guardian, Afghanistan War, Democracy, Taliban, British Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Britain, Al Qaeda, Gordon Brown, Nato, Charlie Wilson, Northern Alliance, Pashtun, Bbc Newsnight, Dominic Moisi, Charlie Wilson's War, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Geopolitics of Fear, Uzbek, Hasara, Tajik, Turkmen, World News
Cedric Perrier

Defense is clearly at the sharp end of the Government's ongoing budget cuts. Yet British coffers alone may not be the only reason Brown is willing to stand firm.

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NATO Helicopter Crash Kills 6 Civilians On Board, Afghan Child On Ground

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: War Wire, Nato Helicopter Crash, Nato Helicoter, Helmand, Afghan Helicopter Crash, Afghanistan, Nato, World News

KABUL — A civilian helicopter ferrying humanitarian aid was shot down in a southern Afghan province where fighting with the Taliban is raging, k...

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Diminishing Returns for Obama's Summiteering?

William Bradley | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Italy, G-8, Africa, Ghana, Barack Obama, Accra, Moscow, Sarah Palin, Copenhagen, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Un, G-20, Dmitri Medvedev, Msnbc, Media Culture, Michael Jackson, Cnn, Fox News, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Nato, Eastern Europe, Poland, Czech Republic, Media News
William Bradley

American media, especially cable TV news, is moving more into infotainment mode, stuck on a few areas. Geopolitics has never been its strong suit, and political coverage is mostly focused on food fights.

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Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa

William Bradley | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Bishkek, Russia, Islamic Jihadist, Boris Yeltsin, Ussr, Kremlin, Iraq, Georgia, Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, Dacha, Ukraine, Kgb, Iran, Chechnya, Nato, Barack Obama, Kyrgyzstan, George W. Bush, Poland, Gazprom, Manas, Moscow, Afghanistan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Grozny, John McCain, Dmitri Medvedev, Czech Republic, Fsb, Dick Cheney, World News
William Bradley

Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.

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Afghanistan's Karzai - Pretty Much Loathed but Pretty Much Re-elected

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Mike Tyson, NATO Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Nato, Hamid Karzai US Criticism, Afghan-Warlords, James Carville, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Karzai has shown great political wile in the past year, sugaring up policies, revving up his campaign, maneuvering like a man possessed: he is determined to keep the presidency.

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Tackling European Security in Corfu

Dora Bakoyannis | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Piracy, Foreign Ministers, Iron Curtain, Terrorism, Nato, European Union, Nuclear Proliferation, Osce, Berlin Wall, Europe, World News
Dora Bakoyannis

Today, the renewed commitment from Russia and the U.S. to work on common ground, focusing their relationship on what unites them, creates a momentum we should built on.

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NATO Thwarts Pirate Attack Off Somalia

AP | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Pirate Attack, Pirate Attack Fail, Nato, Somali Pirates, Nato Thwarts Pirates, Somalia, Pirates Ship Somalia, World News

BRUSSELS — Pirates tried to hijack a Singaporean freighter off Somalia on Monday, but they were chased down and captured by a NATO warship, the ...

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal Takes Command In Afghanistan

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Mcchrystal, Afghanistan, Nato, Mcchrystal Afghanistan, War Wire, Kabul, Gen. Stanley Mcchrystal, Stanley McChrystal, World News

KABUL — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a former top special operations commander, took charge of nearly 90,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on ...

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Somali Pirates Hijack Ship In Oman National Waters: NATO

Reuters | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Piracy, Somalia Pirates, Somali Pirates Oman, Somalia Government, Nato, Foreign Affairs, Somali Pirates, Oman, Somalian Pirates, Pirates, Somalia, Advocacy, World News

Suspected Somali pirates have seized a German-owned cargo ship off the coast of Oman, the first recorded attack in its territorial waters, NATO allian...

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The US War on Yugoslavia: Ten Years Later

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Serbia, Bill Clinton, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Slobodan Milosovic, Nato, Ibrahim Rugova, Bush Administration, Obama, Osce, 1973 War Powers Act, Rambouillet, Kla, World News
Stephen Zunes

For many Democrats, the 1999 U.S-led war in Yugoslavia was a "good" war, in contrast to the "bad" war in Iraq. But it was still an unnecessary and illegal war, with political consequences that are far from settled.

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Foreign Aid, Arms Shipped By Same Firms: Report

Inter Press Service | Thalif Deen | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Arms Smuggling, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Colombia, Ngos, Liberia, Arms, Ngo, Arms Smugglers, Arms Dealers, Nato, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Arms Dealer, Advocacy, World News

UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (IPS) - The military conflicts raging across Africa, Asia and Latin America have been significantly influenced by the heavy ...

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4 British Soldiers Die In Afghanistan In One Day

The Independent | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

Read More: NATO Afghanistan, British Soldiers, Afghanistan, Nato, England, Foreign Affairs, British Soldiers Killed, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, British Troops, World News

The troops died in three separate incidents in Helmand province. The troops died in three separate incidents in Helmand province yesterday, taking t...

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